“average Person Eats 3 Spiders A Year” Factoid Actualy Just Statistical Error. Average Person Eats

Burrowed in the furrows 'tween the eyebrows of the cliff face is a woman, dark and narrow, with her posture like a spiral. "In the furrows," she is saying, "in the furrows."

I agree that the phrase "being normal about [group]" can be used to mean "behaving like a typical person (which is good) with respect to [group]", which I dislike. In fact, while writing the above reply, I was thinking of another common usage of the phrase as meaning "having the correct opinions about [group]", which bothers me even more.

If "normal" is being used to mean "correct, popular among people I respect, typical, admirable, common sense", that is a bad way to use words, because it conflates concepts which are important to distinguish.

However, in this particular context, "normal" can also be read as "everyday, chill, neutral, default, forgettable", which does not strike me as a pernicious usage. If you read it this way, then "being normal about [group]" points at an important aspect of tolerating and respecting the group in question.

This concept of "capable of neutral, casual interactions" is particularly useful when assessing a potential friend (or someone you might invite to a groupchat, or someone whose party you might attend, etc.). In that circumstance, it's usually less relevant what their political beliefs are, how much they know about [group], or how much they care about the welfare of [group] -- what you want to know is whether they can treat you like any other person in the friend group. It is awkward and uncomfortable when the prospective acquaintance has very strong positive feelings about your demographic group, or when they are very concerned about interacting with you respectfully, even though those things are probably good in an abstract sense.

To inquire about this by asking "are they normal about [group]?" is suboptimal because of the ambiguity with other meanings of "being normal about", but it is a way to express something that needs to be expressed, and as such I am sympathetic to it.

Hate how people talk about “being normal” about something. That only applies to like, being weirdly obsessed with something unusual. You can tell me to please be normal about riding a train, or watching an Anne Hathaway movie. Things that I KNOW I’m weird about.

If you’re using it to describe whether someone is a bigot or not, it’s completely incoherent. Bigotry is normal to bigots. When I hear someone say “I’m normal about X group” I don’t assume that means they share my beliefs. I assume that means they’re uncritical about their own.

Is there something I’m missing here??

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i’m sick of these SJWs telling me not to buy bottled water

i propose a new hashtag

#watergate

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Bad analogy : Like playing badminton with a tennis racquet on a squash court :: Worse analogy : Like playing worseminton with a tennis racquet on a squash court

this is good and correct. that scene is in fact extremely horny

My toxic trait is finding O'Brien's interrogation of Winston to be extremely horny

and there are eight billion of them!

girl who is animated, she is a flesh and marrow golem - a division of the world that runs according to the needs of a number of complex cohabitating forms of life, notably coming in the form of a number of sponges each with its own distinguishing properties and materials. The body, that is, that political organisation of sponges, reshapes itself as an organic sculpture. The sculpture looks something like a city that reaches into the sky, and there it is in conversation with a great light that drives it.

in school they used to call me semipermeable membrane for my habit of allowing some things to pass through me